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Materials for an Introduction to Language and Linguistics, 12th Edition

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Materials for an Introduction to Language and Linguistics, 12th Edition

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Language and languages, study and teaching, Linguistics, Linguistique, Linguistik, P121 .l3855 2016, 410
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Table of Contents

List of Symbols
Page ix
Preface to the Twelfth Edition
Page xi
Acknowledgments
Page xv
Chapter 1. Introduction
Page 1
File 1.0. What Is Language?
Page 2
File 1.1. Introducing the Study of Language
Page 3
File 1.2. What You Know When You Know a Language
Page 7
File 1.3. Other (Non-Essential) Aspects of Knowing a Language
Page 13
File 1.4. Design Features of Language
Page 20
File 1.5. Language Modality
Page 27
File 1.6. Practice
Page 33
Chapter 2. Phonetics
Page 39
File 2.0. What Is Phonetics?
Page 40
File 2.1. Representing Speech Sounds
Page 42
File 2.2. Articulation: English Consonants
Page 48
File 2.3. Articulation: English Vowels
Page 58
File 2.4. Beyond English: Speech Sounds of the World's Languages
Page 64
File 2.5. Suprasegmental Features
Page 69
File 2.6. Acoustic Phonetics
Page 74
File 2.7. The Phonetics of Signed Languages
Page 86
File 2.8. Practice
Page 95
Chapter 3. Phonology
Page 107
File 3.0. What Is Phonology?
Page 108
File 3.1. Phonotactic Constraints and Foreign Accents
Page 109
File 3.2. Phonemes and Allophones
Page 114
File 3.3. Phonological Rules
Page 122
File 3.4. Implicational Laws
Page 130
File 3.5. How to Solve Phonology Problems
Page 134
File 3.6. Practice
Page 141
Chapter 4. Morphology
Page 153
File 4.0. What Is Morphology?
Page 154
File 4.1. Words and Word Formation: The Nature of the Lexicon
Page 155
File 4.2. Morphological Processes
Page 163
File 4.3. Morphological Types of Languages
Page 171
File 4.4. The Hierarchical Structure of Derived Words
Page 176
File 4.5. Morphological Analysis
Page 180
File 4.6. Practice
Page 184
Chapter 5. Syntax
Page 201
File 5.0. What Is Syntax?
Page 202
File 5.1. Basic Ideas of Syntax
Page 203
File 5.2. Syntactic Properties
Page 207
File 5.3. Syntactic Constituency
Page 217
File 5.4. Syntactic Categories
Page 220
File 5.5. Constructing a Grammar
Page 228
File 5.6. Practice
Page 236
Chapter 6. Semantics
Page 245
File 6.0. What Is Semantics?
Page 246
File 6.1. An Overview of Semantics
Page 247
File 6.2. Lexical Semantics: The Meanings of Words
Page 249
File 6.3. Compositional Semantics: The Meanings of Sentences
Page 257
File 6.4. Compositional Semantics: Putting Meanings Together
Page 261
File 6.5. Practice
Page 266
Chapter 7. Pragmatics
Page 273
File 7.0. What Is Pragmatics?
Page 274
File 7.1. Language in Context
Page 275
File 7.2. Rules of Conversation
Page 279
File 7.3. Drawing Conclusions
Page 286
File 7.4. Speech Acts
Page 291
File 7.5. Presupposition
Page 299
File 7.6. Practice
Page 304
Chapter 8. Language Acquisition
Page 315
File 8.0. What Is Language Acquisition?
Page 316
File 8.1. Theories of Language Acquisition
Page 317
File 8.2. First-Language Acquisition: The Acquisition of Speech Sounds and Phonology
Page 325
File 8.3. First-Language Acquisition: The Acquisition of Morphology, Syntax, and Word Meaning
Page 332
File 8.4. How Adults Talk to Young Children
Page 339
File 8.5. Bilingual Language Acquisition
Page 345
File 8.6. Practice
Page 349
Chapter 9. Psycholinguistics
Page 357
File 9.0. How Do Our Minds Understand and Produce Language?
Page 358
File 9.1. Language and the Brain
Page 360
File 9.2. Language Disorders
Page 367
File 9.3. Speech Production
Page 373
File 9.4. Speech Perception
Page 383
File 9.5. Lexical Access
Page 390
File 9.6. Sentence Processing
Page 395
File 9.7. Experimental Methods in Psycholinguistics
Page 400
File 9.8. Practice
Page 405
Chapter 10. Language Variation
Page 415
File 10.0. What Is Language Variation?
Page 416
File 10.1. Language Varieties
Page 417
File 10.2. Variation at Different Levels of Linguistic Structure
Page 424
File 10.3. Factors Influencing Variation: Regional and Geographic Factors
Page 428
File 10.4. Factors Influencing Variation: Social Factors
Page 437
File 10.5. Language and Identity
Page 444
File 10.6. Practice
Page 450
Chapter 11. Language and Culture
Page 459
File 11.0. What Is the Study of "Language and Culture"?
Page 460
File 11.1. Linguistic Anthropology
Page 461
File 11.2. Language and Thought
Page 469
File 11.3. Language and Power
Page 476
File 11.4. Politeness
Page 480
File 11.5. Ethnography
Page 484
File 11.6. Practice
Page 487
Chapter 12. Language Contact
Page 491
File 12.0. What Is Language Contact?
Page 492
File 12.1. Language Contact
Page 494
File 12.2. Borrowings into English
Page 499
File 12.3. Pidgin Languages
Page 502
File 12.4. Creole Languages
Page 507
File 12.5. Societal Multilingualism
Page 510
File 12.6. Language Endangerment and Language Death
Page 512
File 12.7. Case Studies in Language Contact
Page 516
File 12.8. Practice
Page 520
Chapter 13. Language Change
Page 527
File 13.0. What Is Language Change?
Page 528
File 13.1. Introducing Language Change
Page 529
File 13.2. Language Relatedness
Page 532
File 13.3. Sound Change
Page 538
File 13.4. Morphological Change
Page 543
File 13.5. Syntactic Change
Page 548
File 13.6. Semantic Change
Page 551
File 13.7. Internal Reconstruction and Comparative Reconstruction
Page 554
File 13.8. Practice
Page 562
Chapter 14. Animal Communication
Page 573
File 14.0. How Do Animals Communicate?
Page 574
File 14.1. Communication and Language
Page 575
File 14.2. Animal Communication in the Wild
Page 579
File 14.3. Can Animals Be Taught Language?
Page 584
File 14.4. Practice
Page 591
Chapter 15. Writing Systems
Page 595
File 15.0. What Is Writing?
Page 596
File 15.1. Writing, Language, and Culture
Page 597
File 15.2. Types of Writing Systems
Page 602
File 15.3. The Historical Evolution of Writing Systems
Page 612
File 15.4. Practice
Page 618
Chapter 16. Language and Computers
Page 623
File 16.0. What Is Computational Linguistics?
Page 624
File 16.1. Speech Synthesis
Page 625
File 16.2. Automatic Speech Recognition
Page 630
File 16.3. Communicating with Computers
Page 634
File 16.4. Machine Translation
Page 640
File 16.5. Corpus Linguistics
Page 644
File 16.6. Practice
Page 647
Chapter 17. Practical Applications
Page 651
File 17.0. What Can You Do with Linguistics?
Page 652
File 17.1. Language Education
Page 653
File 17.2. Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology
Page 656
File 17.3. Forensic Linguistics
Page 658
File 17.4. Language in Advertising
Page 661
File 17.5. Codes and Code-Breaking
Page 667
File 17.6. Being a Linguist
Page 675
File 17.7. Practice
Page 677
Appendix: Answers to Example Exercises
Page 683
Glossary
Page 689
Selected Bibliography
Page 715
Language Index
Page 725
Subject Index
Page 729
IPA Symbols and Example Words
Page 741
American English Consonant and Vowel Charts
Page 742
Official IPA Chart
Page 743

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Source title: Language Files: Materials for an Introduction to Language and Linguistics, 12th Edition

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